A network conversation is the traffic between two specific endpoints. For example, an IP conversation is all the traffic between two IP addresses. The description of the known endpoint types can be found in Section 8.4.1, “What is an Endpoint?”.

Beside the list content, the conversations window work the same way as the endpoint ones, see Section 8.4.2, “The "Endpoints" window” for a description how it works.

Figure 8.4. The "Conversations" window

Before the combined window described above was available, each of its pages were shown as separate windows. Even though the combined window is much more convenient to use, these separate windows are still available. The main reason is, they might process faster for very large capture files. However, as the functionality is exactly the same as in the combined window, they won't be discussed in detail here.